How to make food sink???

[Gambit]

Recently bought a small bottle of Cyclop-eeze. It came in wafer form, or rather in flakes. As such the food wouldfloat on the surface, before i know it, it gets sucked in by my filter......the fish will be able to eat like maybe about 20% of the food only.

Once the food gets 'stuck' to the surface they would ignore it.

I tried mixing and stirring the wafer in a cup of aquarium water first.....but it still floats.........

Anyone with any idea how i can make the food sink or at least stay under the surface of the water??????

[Dazza]

i hv same prob. I used to buy th efrozen ones n no prob but now using the dried flakey ones. May go back to frozen ones soon as these loating ones cant use to feed corals.

[sugi]

I have been feeding my fish with flakes.

I will put the flakes inside a small net and soak it in the aquarium tank and swing the net left and right before releasing the food.

The flakes will be broken into small pieces which is easier for it to sink.

98% of the flakes will sink.

Try it .... i hope it will work on your flakes.

[Gambit]

Wah...put in a net and swing left swing right???

dont really understand.......

wont the food just start floating up??

and if you have to open the net , means you have to soak your hands into the tank?? (not very good for the fishes leh.....)

[salted fish]

I have just got the feeding station thing from Octopus Bay & also saw similar think @ Kallang Way LFS

then the food will not flow back to your over flow... is very useful.

[Gambit]

wah.......good idea!!

but alas.......

once the food get 'stuck' to the surface, the fish will ignore it leh........

how how????

[Achilles Tang]

Once the food has soaked up enough water... it'll sink.

[element]

yeahyeah, AT is right... once the dried food has been soaked enough, they will sink.

i usually soak my dried flakes in garlic guard before i feed them to my fishes, so i don't encounter this problem at all.

[ryz]

eh a bit but can anyone just tell me if I can reuse the garlic guard after I already soaked some food in it? Or must I throw the used garlic extract away? like that very fast finish leh. If can reuse, how u all normally store?

[Gambit]

hey...i tried AT's method.....and soaked my flakes...

but after like an hour.......they are still floating........

could it be cyclop-eeze is the problem??

[Achilles Tang]

Too much air trapped in the flakes.

Squeeze them before swirling them hard into your water. They should sink.

With dry flakes, I hold them underwater near a powerhead and release them. They will mostly remain underwater without floating up to the surface.

[arcanehacker]

I believe most flake food sink.. once it's soaked in water it SHOULD sink..

[arcanehacker]

I have just got the feeding station thing from Octopus Bay & also saw similar think @ Kallang Way LFS

then the food will not flow back to your over flow... is very useful.

Interesting.. how does it work? How is the fish gonna access the food?

If its good I'm gonna get one so that my tank doesn't get cloudy..

[salted fish]

Hi arcanehacker,

is just a square hollow box that float on water surface. just place fish food in the center and surface food will not flow back to the filter and remain in the hollow box.

[arcanehacker]

Hi arcanehacker,

is just a square hollow box that float on water surface. just place fish food in the center and surface food will not flow back to the filter and remain in the hollow box.

I believe it would be only for large food? ..

[salted fish]

I believe it would be only for large food? ..

Is for all sizes fish food, float feeding station is to prevent the food for flowing down to your filter system.